Favorites of five or more points have gone 71-52-1 (57.7%) ATS and though it is a small sample, unpopular favorites, teams getting less than 50% of spread tickets, have covered 65.5% of the time (36-19-1 ATS).
New Mexico St has 62% of the tickets and 72% of the money.
1-4 yesterday. Underdogs went 6-2. Favorites usually win more than underdogs in the round of 32 so somewhat surprising yesterday. Maybe favorites rule the day today? We will see.
Todays first plays:
Villanova -5 -108 Favorites are 24-10 ATS (70.5%) in the last 34 Big East games in NCAA tourney.
Houston -3.5 -108
Big 10 #4 seeds are 3-11-1 ATS (21%)in their last 15 games